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Extraordinary Prime Minister

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Unleashed by Boris Johnson, is about people, policies, mistakes and triumphs from the man who would be world of the world claims many triumphs and also his mortal failings in this political memoir of Westminster power politics. Johnson a biographer of notoriously dubious merit, has turned to autobiography significantly  earlier than he would have liked, as the country could no longer believe  word he has to say. He used his bantering wit like a magician you almost forget that he isn’t revealing anything. Born on June 19,, 1964, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician and writer who … Continue reading Extraordinary Prime Minister

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Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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Donald Trump do not involve paying hush money to a porn star or conspiring to subvert 2020 election, and his notion that he is a self-made billionaire who personifies the American dream.  Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne … Continue reading Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health

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Six water companies in England have been accused of overcharging customers between £800mn and £1.5bn by under-reporting the scale of their sewage pollution, in a case that may pave the way for customers to receive hundreds of millions of pounds in refunds. Competition Appeals Tribunal yesterday lawyers for Carolyn Roberts, a former professor and environmental consultant, accused the privatised companies of abusing their monopoly position to mislead regulators over the amount of sewage they were discharging into rivers since 2015. Roberts alleges, that, as a result, Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, Anglican Water, Severn Trent, Northumbrian Water and United Utilities, were … Continue reading Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health

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Starmer’s wife had £5, 000 worth designer clothes paid for by donor

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EM Foster’s Animal Farm quotes about democracy ” All people are equal but some are more equal than others. A Labour donor has bought  more than £5, 000 worth of  designer clothes for Sir Keir Starmer’s wife Victoria, over the past four months in an arrangement that breaches parliamentary rules.  Prime Minister Starmer faces an investigation after failing to disclose that Lord Alli, a Labour peer worth more than £200 million covered the cost of a personal shopper and clothes for Lady Starmer. Alli, former chairman of the online fashion retailer Asos, has also given the Labour leader £18, 685 … Continue reading Starmer’s wife had £5, 000 worth designer clothes paid for by donor

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“I have kept maturing, If only I knew then what I know now not what I did” Blair

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Tony Blair’s advice to up and coming leaders is to focus on their domestic priorities and delivery, embrace technology, seek respect rather than love, keep foreign travel to a minimum and avoid distractions. Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair KG, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007 and served as leader of the opposition from 1994 to1997 said: “It’s a great time to be governing”. His smile, which first infatuated and then infuriated Britain, is not a believer in a first among equals or the … Continue reading “I have kept maturing, If only I knew then what I know now not what I did” Blair

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Noble winner Yunus asked to lead Bangladesh

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Eighty-four-year-old Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a seasoned technocrat, micro-lending pioneer, and octogenarian Nobel Peace Prize winner to head the interim government’s chief adviser – in effect prime minister of Bangladesh, world’s eighth-most populous country, after toppling the country’s autocratic leader and his personal nemesis Sheikh Hasina, who had fled to India to escape mobs marching on her house. Yunu clad in traditional Kurt and vest had flow in from Paris, where he launched a social entrepreneurship venture with the mayor and had square named after him in Dhaka.  The institutions of the old regime -police, judiciary, government were melting away. Students … Continue reading Noble winner Yunus asked to lead Bangladesh

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Dictators seeking to impose their vision

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Historian and Anglo-Polish journalist Anne Applebaum uncovers the sophisticated networks of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The main enemies of domestic demagogues fanning the flames of populism. Foreign dictators who seek to impose their vision of a new international; order and hate our freedoms in George W Bush’s sonorous phrase. Applebaum’s catchy coinage “ Who are these bad guys?” is said to be a group of autocratic regimes, such as Russia, China and Iran, who together operate “not like a bloc but rather like an agglomeration of companies, bound not by ideology but rather by a ruthless, … Continue reading Dictators seeking to impose their vision

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Bureaucratic inertia and geopolitical distraction

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Lost Decade is a bureaucratic take on American policy’ slow  pivot  to the east and to Asia-cnetric geopolitics and its implications for America’s present and future. Across the political spectrum, there is wide agreement that Asia should stand at the center of US foreign policy. But this worldview, first represented in the Obama Administration’s 2011 “Pivot to Asia, marks a dramatic departure from the entire history of American grand strategy. Both trump and Biden continued in a similar vein to little effect. In the upcoming US election, both likely candidates President Joe Biden and ex-president Donald Trump more or less … Continue reading Bureaucratic inertia and geopolitical distraction

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Struggles of America’s white working class

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Donald Trump’s 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate J.D. Vance  who grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks hillbillies or White trash.  In this latest memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, “ dirt poor and in love”, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. Vance’s grandma told him: “Never be like these losers who think the deck … Continue reading Struggles of America’s white working class

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Trump hails ‘big win for democracy’ after US Supreme Court verdict

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The US Supreme Court has sent Donald Trump’s claim he is immune from prosecution for his actions while president back to a lower court. The former president had been charged with conspiracy to defraud the US, conspiring against the right of Americans to vote and corruptly obstructing an official proceeding and conspiring to do so. In a historic 6-3 ruling, the justices said for the first time that former presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for their official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts. The Supreme Court’s justices ordered lower courts to work out precisely ow to apply their … Continue reading Trump hails ‘big win for democracy’ after US Supreme Court verdict